For 13 years I lived with mountain gorillas on the misty slopes of the Virunga volcanoes, which form a section of the borders between Rwanda, Zaire, and Uganda . In a study area of 25 square ...

and two of its most active volcanoes. Virunga hosts more than 700 bird species (among them the handsome francolin and Grauer’s swamp warbler) as well as more than 200 mammals (including the odd ...

Rwanda’s Virunga volcanoes have become the go-to for once-in-a-lifetime encounters with mountain gorillas. And further south, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa are seen as essential stop-offs ...

Mountain gorillas - an endangered species - survive in only two regions in the world: the Virunga Massif (a chain of ...

Nyiragongo is a large stratovolcano near Lake Kivu at the eastern border of DR Congo with Rwanda in the Virunga National ... of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. Not much is known about ...

and N. Mushenzi. 2004. Monitoring law enforcement and illegal activities in the northern sector of the Parc National des Virunga, Democratic Republic of Congo. Pachyderm 36: 16–29. Kalpers, J. 2001.

citing employees of the seismological laboratory located on the volcano's slope. Lava is flowing from Nyamulagira's crater to nearby Virunga National Park, a haven for rare mountain gorillas ...